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Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) Is created
found a way that computers can talk to each other in case of nuclear attack -
Computers at Stanford and UCLA connected for the first time
The firsts hosts on what would one day become the internet -
An Arpanet network was established
Network between Harvard, MIT, and BBN ( company that created the "interface message processor" computers used to connect to the network) in 1970 was created -
Email was first developed
Developed by Ray Tomlinson, who also made the decision to use the "@" symbol to separate the user name from the computer name (which later on became the domain name) -
The beginning of TCP/IP
A proposal was published to link Arpa-like networks together into a so called "inter-network" which would have no central control and would work around a transmission control protocol ( Which wventually became TCP/IP) -
The First Personal Computer Modem is Invented
The modem was invented by Dennis Hayes and Dale Heatherington, and was introduced and initially sold to computer hobbyists. -
Spam is Born
The first unsolicited commercial email message (Later known as spam), was sent out to 600 California Arpanet users by Gary Thuerk -
MUD- The earliest form of multiplayer games was debuted
The precursor to World of Warcraft and Second Life was developed in 1979, and was called MUD Short for Multi-user Dungeon). MUDs were entirely text based virtual worlds, combining elements of role playing games, interactive, fiction, and online chat. -
The first emoticon :-)
The first emoticon was used while many people credit Kevin MacKenzie with the invention of the emoticon in 1979, it was Scott Fahlman in 1982 who proposed :-) after a joke, rather than the original -) proposed by MacKenzie -
The domain name system was created
The first Domain name servers (DNS) was create. The domain name system was important in that it made addresses on the internet more human friendly compared to its numerical IP address counterparts. DNS servers allowed Internet users to type in an essay to remember domain name and then converted it to the IP address automatically -
World Wide Web protocols finished
The code for the World Wide Web was written by Tim Berners-Lee, based on his proposal from the year before, along with the standards for HTML, HTTP, and URLs. -
First web page created
Brought some major innovations to the world of the internet. The first web page was created and, much like the first email explained what email was, its purpose was to explain what the World Wide Web was -
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The National Center for Super computing Applications (NCSA) releases Mosaic 1.0
This is the first web browser to become popular with the general public and this is when the Web starts to become popular. source -
One of the first known Web purchases takes place
Pizza hut created an online site where customers can order online and the first order occurs in 1994 source -
Yahoo is created by Stanford University students
graduate students Jerry Yang and David Filo create Yahoo for web surfing source -
Netflix launches
Is at first a company that sends DVDs to homes via mail but later becomes an internet movie/ video sensation site. source -
Wikipedia
Created by Jimmy Wales and by first year over 20,000 encyclopedia entries were made. Site used for quick information gathering source -
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Youtube was created
Created by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim in San Mateo, CA. Purpose of website was for video sharing purposes source -
Twitter launches
Jack Dorsey is the founder of twitter. Twitter is used for mass social communication. source -
Snap chat was created
Created by Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown.Purpose was to share photos quickly with friends. New social media app
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